Date Rape

Date Rape

Date Rape

‘Rape’ as we all know is a heinous offence of sexual assault against women which is condemned by the governments of all nations. Rape has been broadly classified into two categories, one stranger rape which is defined as nonconsensual sex between two individuals who did not know each other before the sexual act, secondly acquaintance rape as nonconsensual sex between two individuals who are known to each other and thirdly date rape which is considered as a subset of acquaintance rape where nonconsensual sex occurs between two people who are in romantic relationship.[V.J. Rickert, Psy.D., and C.M. Weinmann, Ph.D ] Traditionally, it was believed that women are raped by some unknown person coming out of the darkness. But this paradigm has changed since evolution of acquaintance rape and ‘date rape’. Date rape is sexual assault that occurs when the victim and perpetrator are involved in dating relationship, ranging from first date to a steady dating relationship. [Sally K. Ward, Jane Stapleton and Jennifer Leatherman] On the basis of the information received and collated from Central Michigan University, the U.S. Dept. of Justice, the Kansas State University Alcohol and other Drug Education Service and other sources, the University of Tennessee prepared a report which revealed that 25% of women were victims of rape and attempted rape whereas 85% rapes occurred on campuses as acquaintance/ date rape and 42% of college women who were raped did not disclosed. [Sandra Choron and Harry Choron] Under the study conducted by Towson State University, it was believed that 33.6% of campus sexual assaults were reported to the Police where the rest went unreported. Campus rape victims are often away from the home for the first time in a new environment and after being victimized by sexual assault, many campus rape victims feel a loss of trust in themselves or others and transfer to another school or dropout [Allan M. Hoffman, John H. Schuh, Robert H. Fenske]...

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